Lead Software Engineer, Platform UI

Redwood City, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

C3 AI (NYSE: AI) is the Enterprise AI application software company. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products including the C3 Agentic AI Platform an end-to-end platform for developing deploying and operating enterprise AI applications C3 AI applications a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS enterprise AI applications that enable the digital transformation of organizations globally and C3 Generative AI a suite of domain-specific generative AI offerings for the more at: C3 AI

C3 AI is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer to provide technical leadership on our Platform UI team. This role is ideal for engineers who operate at the intersection of architecture developer experience and large-scale UI systems and who are motivated to shape the future of enterprise AI application development.

In this role you will define the technical direction and architectural foundation of the UI framework and component ecosystem that underpins the C3 Platform. Your work will directly influence how hundreds of engineersand our customersbuild scale and operate mission-critical AI applications.

Responsibilities:

Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture of the Platform UI framework and component library.
Lead the design of highly scalable and extensible systems spanning application development bundling runtime performance accessibility localization (i18n) observability and extensibility.
Make architectural decisions that balance performance flexibility developer productivity and enterprise-grade requirements.
Serve as a technical authority and advisor across teams influencing UI platform and application architecture company wide.
Partner closely with Product Design Infrastructure and Application Engineering teams to align technical solutions with user and business needs.
Lead complex cross-team initiatives spanning UI frameworks backend services and third-party integrations.
Establish and evolve best practices and standards for framework design component APIs testing strategy performance optimization and release quality.
Mentor senior engineers raise the technical bar across the organization and help grow future technical leaders.
Proactively identify technical debt scalability challenges and systemic risks driving solutions before they become blockers.

Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience delivering complex production-grade applications at scale with a strong front-end and platform focus.
Proven ability to operate as a senior technical leader delivering high-impact outcomes across multiple teams and products without formal people-management responsibilities.
Deep expertise in front-end architecture including JavaScript/TypeScript React Angular or similar frameworks along with modern build systems and UI performance optimization.
Strong experience designing and building APIs (REST GraphQL gRPC) with a solid understanding of integration patterns and interoperability.
Experience with enterprise platforms low-code systems or developer tooling.
Strong understanding of application state management data visualization accessibility standards and internationalization.
Experience effectively using AI-powered coding assistants in day-to-day development including authoring high-quality instructions prompts and guidelines to improve code quality productivity and consistency across teams.
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence communicate clearly and drive alignment across engineering and product stakeholders.
Track record of owning ambiguous high-impact technical problems end-to-end.
Cloud experience building and deploying systems in Google Cloud AWS or Azure including cloud-native services and infrastructure-as-code patterns.

Preferred Qualifications:

Proven experience designing and maintaining large-scale UI frameworks or design systems used by multiple teams.
Familiarity with distributed systems backend-for-frontend patterns and observability/telemetry.
Demonstrated success setting technical strategy and delivering durable long-lived platform solutions.
Passion for improving developer experience and building frameworks that scale both technically and organizationally.

C3 AI provides excellent benefits a competitive compensation package and generous equity plan.

California Base Pay Range

$175000$219000 USD

C3 AI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristics including disabled and veteran status.

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